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18 Cards in this Set
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Caboceers |
an African who sold other Africans as slaves |
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currents and winds |
used to explore easily |
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Brazilian sugar |
high amounts of slaves were sent to Brazil to grow sugar |
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tariff |
a high tax used to keep out foreign |
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quran |
Muslim holy book that forbid the enslaving of other Muslims |
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line of demarcation |
line draw by Pope Alexander the II that divided the world in half to stop Spain and Portugal fighting |
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circumnavigate |
to travel around the globe |
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migration |
moving to one place to another |
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smallpox |
disease caught by natives causing a need for slavery |
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Ecomienda system |
system which allowed enslavement of natives` |
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beaver fur |
fur of beavers sold in France for lots of money |
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Ottoman Empire |
blocked land route to Asia so Europeans had to find sea route |
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middle passage |
movement of slaves to America |
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maroons |
a Jamaican runaway |
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Cortez |
Portuguese explorer |
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plantation |
colony where slaves worked to grow food |
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indentured servant |
European who agreed to work on plantation for set number of years |
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